Cho'Gath Patch History

Patch 26.19

Emerald+ · All available regions · Last 14 days

26.17

Buff
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 20 – 100 30 – 110

25.23

New
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Monster damage:
New 100 – 300 (+ 30% AP).
Old: 20 – 100 (+ 30% AP) (+ 2.5 – 3.9% (+ 0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health). The damage based on the target's health ratio is capped at 200 against monsters.

25.11

Nerf
Release version

Stats

Armor growth: 5 4.5

25.10

Adjustment
Release version

Stats

Base attack speed: 0.625 0.658
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 80 – 320 80 – 300
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Health ratio: 2.5 – 3.5% 2.5 – 3.9% of target's maximum health

25.09

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

New While the ability is not on cooldown, its icon can now be pinged to display the damage to monsters in chat, similarly to Smite.

25.05

Nerf
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 80 – 340 80 – 320
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Base damage: 80 – 300 80 – 280
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Health ratio: 3% at all ranks 2.5 – 3.5% of target's maximum health

14.14

Buff
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 80 – 320 80 – 340
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 22 – 82 20 – 100

14.10

Adjustment
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Removed Health ratio damage is no longer capped against minions.
Monster damage cap: 60 – 140 200 at all ranks

14.7

Adjustment
Release version

Shan Hai Scrolls Cho'Gath

Bugfix During a basic attack, arms now follow their proper animation instead of breaking from the model's skeleton or readjusting abruptly.

14.6

Buff
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Cooldown: 13 – 9 11 – 9 seconds
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 22 – 70 22 – 82

14.2

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bonus attack range per stack: (60 – 100)/13 3 4.7 – 7.7 3
New Cast range is now increased by 2.5 per stack, up to 25 at 10 stacks.
Extended tooltip now displays the bonus range granted for basic attacks and the ability.

13.6

Adjustment
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Broken Covenant Cho'Gath heal VFX is now unique from Shan Hai Scrolls Cho'Gath.

13.4

Buff
Release version

Stats

Armor growth: 4.7 5
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 80 – 300 80 – 320
Mana cost: 60 50
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Mana cost: 70 – 110 70 – 90

12.23

Buff
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Mana restore: 3.5 to 7.75 4.72 to 9.48
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Base damage: 75 – 275 80 – 300
r ability icon r

Feast

Cooldown: 80 at all ranks 80 – 60 3 seconds

12.22

Buff
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Non-champion base damage: 1000 1200

12.19

Adjustment
Release version

General

Bugfix Icon in the HUD now properly displays the correct size and image.

12.14

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Undocumented/Bug Fix: Buff tooltip title renamed to Feast from Feast x1.
Prior to V10.24, the highest possible stack count used to be 255, and the buff name would equal the stacks (e.g. "Feast x255").

12.10

Adjustment
Release version

Stats

Base health: 574 644
Health growth: 80 94
Armor growth: 3.5 4.7
Magic resistance growth: 1.25 2.05
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Base heal: 20 to 71 18 to 52

11.20

Adjustment
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Bugfix No longer activates from destroying trinkets or champion-generated objects.

11.19

Buff
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Cooldown: 7 6 seconds

11.3

Nerf
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 22 – 82 22 – 70

11.1

Nerf
Release version

Stats

Base health: 574.4 574
Base magic resistance: 32.1 32
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

[Undocumented] Once again gains the correct bonus damage from Feast stacks.

10.24

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Undocumented / Bug: Buff application reworked, causing Vorpal Spikes to no longer gain bonus damage from stacks correctly.
Vorpal Spikes now gains 0.5% of target's maximum health bonus damage when Feast is first leveled and nothing from stacks.
[Undocumented] No longer capped at 255 stacks, buff name now always "Feast x1" and gained when R is learned instead of when gaining the first stack.

10.23

Adjustment
Release version

Stats

Base mana: 272.2 270
Mana growth: 40 60
Base mana regeneration: 7.206 7.2

10.14

Adjustment
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Bugfix Now properly silences Rift Scuttler.

10.9

Buff
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage per spike: 22 – 70 22 – 82
Total base damage: 66 – 210 66 – 246

10.4

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bugfix Execute indicator now appears as intended and is properly visible.

9.20

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bugfix Execute indicator now properly appears on clones' health bars.

9.10

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

[Undocumented] New indicator on enemy health bar, indicating when the enemy will be executed.

9.7

Buff
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Cooldown: 9 7 seconds

9.5

Buff
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 20 – 60 22 – 70

8.10

Adjustment
Release version

Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath

Vorpal Spikes
Bugfix Now sound more in line with the skin's theme.

8.7

Adjustment
Release version

Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath

Bugfix Maw is no longer rigged improperly when using his emotes.

8.5

Adjustment
Release version

Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath

Vorpal Spikes
Bugfix No longer use classic SFX when he has 10+ stacks of Feast.

8.3

Buff
Release version

General

Complete VFX update.

Stats

Base health regeneration: 8.928 9

8.2

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

New Now draws nearby minion aggro when targeting an enemy champion.

8.1

Adjustment
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Bugfix Empowered attacks no longer interrupt the basic attacks of enemy champions they hit.

7.24

Adjustment
Release version

General

Bugfix Fixed a bug where all skins (except for Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath) stole Jurassic Cho'Gath death SFX.

7.22

Buff
Release version

Stats

Base attack damage: 61.156 69
Base armor: 28.88 38

7.21

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bugfix Stacks now correctly count spawned Rift Herald as epic monsters.

7.20

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bugfix Fixed a bug causing the meal tracker to count jungle monsters oddly.

7.19

Adjustment
Release version

Battlecast Prime Cho'Gath

Feral Scream
Bugfix Is now of higher fidelity on very low settings.

7.17

Adjustment
Release version

General

Bugfix Corrected suggested starting items to no longer cost more than starting gold.

7.15

Adjustment
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
Target's maximum health ratio: 4% 3% of target's maximum health

Prehistoric Cho'Gath

Bugfix Parts of head armor no longer stretches during his dance animation.

7.14

New
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 305 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 300
Mana cost: 90 60
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Silence duration: 1.5 / 1.625 / 1.75 / 1.875 / 2 1.6 / 1.7 / 1.8 / 1.9 / 2 seconds
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

New Cooldown: 8 / 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 seconds.
New Mana Cost: 30 mana.
Removed Toggle: Cho'Gath's basic attacks each launch a volley of spikes in a line, dealing 25 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 30% AP) magic damage and applying spell effects to enemies hit.
New Active: Cho'Gath's next 3 basic attacks launch a volley of spikes in a line, dealing 25 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80 (+ 30% AP) (+ 4% (+ 0.5% per Feast stack) of target's maximum health) magic damage and applying a decaying over the next 1.5 seconds slow of 30 / 35 / 40 / 45 / 50%.
New Now grants 50 bonus range.
New Now resets Cho'Gath basic attack timer.
Bugfix Now correctly applies Hunter's Talisman's health drain.

7.13

Adjustment
Release version

General

Basic attack and ability audio has been updated for all skins without skin-specific audio effects.

7.9

Adjustment
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

[Undocumented] Tooltip now mentions spikes apply spell effects.

7.7

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bugfix Kill indicator now properly takes ability power into consideration.

7.6

Buff
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bonus health per stack: 80 / 110 / 140 80 / 120 / 160
Total stacks that can be gained from minions and non-epic monsters: 5 6

7.5

New
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

New Adjusted particle to match actual cone size.

7.4

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Removed Loses half stacks on death.
New Can now stack infinitely (from 6), but can only gain up to 5 stacks from killing non-epic monsters or minions.
Removed Healing if at 6 stacks.
Removed Champion kill granting 2 stacks.
Removed Minions and monsters kill refunding 50% cooldown and mana cost.
New Tooltip now lists how many minions, pets, monsters, dragons, epic monsters and champions you have eaten.
AP ratio: 70% AP 50% AP
New Damage now scales with 10% bonus health.
Health per stack: 100 / 140 / 180 80 / 110 / 140
New Reaches maximum size at 10 stacks.
Maximum bonus attack range: 50 75

6.20

Adjustment
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Cooldown: 13 13 / 12 / 11 / 10 / 9 seconds
Range: 585 650
Silence duration: 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 1.5 / 1.625 / 1.75 / 1.875 / 2 seconds
Bugfix Fixed a bug where units would be hit if they had escaped the area after the cast.

6.8

Adjustment
Release version

General

Adjusted splash artwork for Gentleman Cho'Gath.

6.7

Adjustment
Release version

General

Splash artwork for Gentleman Cho'Gath updated to the Chinese art.

6.6

Buff
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Bonus health per stack: 90 / 120 / 150 100 / 140 / 180

6.5

Adjustment
Release version

General

New ability icons

5.21

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Tooltip updated.
New Champion kills grant Cho'Gath 2 stacks.
New When at max stacks it will restore 90 / 120 / 150 health on unit kill and double the amount on champion kill.
Heal is functional despite not displaying in tooltip.

4.21

New
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Cooldown: 60 80 seconds
New Refunds 50% of both cooldown and mana cost if it kills a minion or monster.

4.18

Adjustment
Release version

General

New splash artwork for Original Cho'Gath.

4.8

Buff
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Cast range: 150 175
Cast time: 0.5 0.25 seconds

4.5

Buff
Release version

Stats

Base armor: 19 23

3.15

Adjustment
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Tooltip corrected to state slow duration is 3 seconds and not 1.5

3.01

Nerf
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Silence duration: 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 1.5 / 1.75 / 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 seconds

1.0.0.154

Adjustment
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Targeting cone now attached to Cho'Gath.

1.0.0.153

Adjustment
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Health gain: 34 to 68 20 to 71

1.0.0.152

Buff
Release version

Stats

Movement speed: 320 345

1.0.0.148

Adjustment
Release version

General

Ability tooltips updated

1.0.0.145

Adjustment
Release version

General

Ability tooltips updated

1.0.0.144

Buff
Release version

Stats

Magic resistance per level: 0 1.25
Attack range normalized to 125 from 130.
q ability icon q

Rupture

Cast time: 0.672 0.5 seconds
Delay normalized to 0.625 from 0.5 - 0.75
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Cast time: 0.6417 0.5 seconds
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Width now increases based on Cho'Gath's size.
r ability icon r

Feast

Now grants Cho'Gath up to 50 additional attack range based on both rank and amount of stacks.
Cast time normalized to 0.5 seconds from 0.43.
Range: 100 150

1.0.0.140

Buff
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Red/green rings added to indicate which targets will be affected.
Delay: 0.7 0.65

1.0.0.139

Buff
Release version

Stats

Movement speed: 315 320

1.0.0.133

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug where it would fail to kill targets protected by shields.

1.0.0.125

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Run animation speed while enlarged adjusted.

1.0.0.123

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug where Cho'Gath could gain a stack even when the target did not die.

1.0.0.120

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Now a particle will correctly appear if it can kill the target.

1.0.0.118b

Nerf
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Chance of failing to knock up target reduced.

1.0.0.113

Adjustment
Release version

Stats

Health: 550 520
Armor: 21 19
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Mana gain: 7 to 15.5 3.5 to 7.75
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Base damage: 80 / 130 / 180 / 240 / 300 75 / 125 / 175 / 225 / 275
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60 20 / 35 / 50 / 65 / 80
AP ratio: (+ 20% AP) (+ 30% AP)
r ability icon r

Feast

Base damage: 300 / 550 / 800 300 / 475 / 650
AP ratio: (+ 50% AP) (+ 70% AP)

1.0.0.109

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Stacks loss on death: 3 rounded-up half
Inconsistent with V1.0.0.86

1.0.0.107

Adjustment
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Delay: 0.8 0.75
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Health restored upon kill: 40 to 82 34 to 68
Mana restored upon kill: 8 to 16.5 7 to 15.5

1.0.0.105

Adjustment
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Fixed a bug with the level-up tooltip showing the cooldown changing even though it did not.

1.0.0.103

Adjustment
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Cooldown: 10 9 seconds
Mana cost: 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120 90 at all ranks
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Is now classified as an area-of-effect spell for like Rylai's Crystal Scepter and Hextech Revolver.

1.0.0.100

Adjustment
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Silence duration: 2 / 2.5 / 3 / 3.5 / 4 2 / 2.25 / 2.5 / 2.75 / 3 seconds
Cooldown: 16 13 seconds
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Fixed a display error with death recap.

1.0.0.96

Adjustment
Release version
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Will no longer trigger Spellblade.
Will now fire even if Cho'Gath misses the target.
r ability icon r

Feast

Can now be cast more easily on any unit, including: Dragon, Lizard Elder, or another very large Cho'Gath.

1.0.0.94

Adjustment
Release version

General

Cho'Gath will now be properly considered melee for items like Youmuu's Ghostblade.
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Can now be toggled off.
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug at Rank 3 where Cho'Gath has difficulty feasting when at maximum stacks.
Fixed a bug where the ability buff tooltip was not updating the bonus health when Cho'Gath loses stacks.
Fixed a bug where Cho'Gath was not scaling properly when he loses stacks.
Fixed a bug where the Tenacity mastery caused it not to kill the target.

1.0.0.86

Adjustment
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage is now dealt on knocking targets airborne from targets hitting the ground.
r ability icon r

Feast

Stack loss on death: all rounded-up half

1.0.0.82

Adjustment
Release version

General

Auto attack animation timing tweaked.

1.0.0.79

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug with damage values in Death Recap.
Tooltip updated to reflect health gain on enemy kill.

1.0.0.74

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug where it was not able to kill Poppy.

1.0.0.72

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug where activating it when the target had too much health dealt too much damage.

1.0.0.63

Nerf
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Slow duration: 4 3 seconds

1.0.0.61

Nerf
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Cast range: 1000 950
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

AP ratio: (+ 75% AP) (+ 70% AP)
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

AP ratio: (+ 25% AP) (+ 20% AP)

1.0.0.52

Buff
Release version
q ability icon q

Rupture

Range: 900 1000
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Cooldown: 17 16 seconds
Range: 615 650

1.0.0.32

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed an issue where Cho'Gath would not move close enough to the target at large sizes.

0.9.25.34

Adjustment
Release version

General

Secondary / critical strike animations updated
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Cho'Gath now gains 8 to 16.5 when killing a unit together with the health gain.

0.9.25.21

New
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Health gain per kill: 30 to 72 40 to 82
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120 20 / 30 / 40 / 50 / 60
AP ratio: (+ 33% AP) (+ 25% AP)
Now also hits Cho'Gath's primary target.
r ability icon r

Feast

Cooldown: 70 60 seconds
New (+ 50% AP) ratio

0.9.22.16

Adjustment
Release version
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Cooldown: 20 17 seconds
q ability icon q

Rupture

Range: 800 900
Mana cost: 80 / 95 / 110 / 125 / 140 80 / 90 / 100 / 110 / 120
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Base damage: 20 / 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 40 / 60 / 80 / 100 / 120
AP ratio: (+ 25% AP) (+ 33% AP)
r ability icon r

Feast

Size per stack: 0.9 / 0.15 / 0.18 0.7 / 0.11 / 0.15

0.9.22.15

Adjustment
Release version

General

Renamed to Cho'Gath, the Terror of the Void
Size increased
New voiceover

Stats

Movement speed: 310 315
Base damage: 50 56
Mana per level: 35 40
Attack range: 125 130
q ability icon q

Rupture

Base damage: 65 / 125 / 185 / 245 / 305 80 / 135 / 190 / 245 / 305
w ability icon w

Feral Scream

Base damage: 60 / 120 / 180 / 240 / 300 80 / 130 / 180 / 240 / 300
e ability icon e

Vorpal Spikes

Range increased by 50.
r ability icon r

Feast

Size gain per stack slightly decreased.
Fixed a bug which caused the level up tooltip to not display.

0.9.22.7

Buff
Release version
p ability icon p

Carnivore

Health gain: 15 to 72 30 to 72

0.8.22.115

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Fixed a bug causing the particle to incorrectly display on champions.

0.8.21.110

Adjustment
Release version
r ability icon r

Feast

Consume health threshold: a percentage of target's health 300 / 550 / 800
Will no longer bypass Guardian Angel, Chronoshift, or Undying Rage. ;July 10, 2009 Patch
r ability icon r

Feast

Tooltip updated.
No longer kills through Guardian Angel or Chronoshift. ;June 26, 2009 Patch

Added

Carnivore - I
Cho'Gath restores life upon killing units.
Rupture - Q
Cho'Gath causes the ground to rupture. After a short delay jagged spikes will emerge, popping enemies into the air, dealing damage and slowing them upon landing.
Feral Scream - W
Cho'Gath lets out a terrifying scream in a cone damaging and silencing enemies hit.
Vorpal Spikes - E
Passive: Cho'Gath's basic attacks send out spikes impaling enemy units behind his primary target.
Feast - R
Cho'Gath attempts to consume an enemy whole instantly killing it if below a health threshold. Each time Cho'Gath successfully devours a unit he grows in size, gaining health and increasing the consumption health threshold.